Recently, both Slate and the New York Times ran pieces criticizing the Pell Grant program as being “not nearly enough to cover college costs for any of its recipients”, making it “impossible for [students] to graduate on time.”

On the third Thursday of November each year, the American Cancer Society hosts “The Great American Smokeout” (GAS). And now, colleges and universities across the country are kicking in with their own efforts.

Mental illness is on the rise in college students, with at first two possible reasons: there’s actually no rise from the previous generation, just an increased awareness of it; or, to put it colloquially, there’s “something in the water.”